Detroit Theft

Detroit · Theft · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Detroit police open data recorded 11,567 theft incidents, 14.7% of all 78,473 incidents reported in the city that year and up 0.3% from 2024. That is about 1,791 per 100,000 residents, compared with 1,637 per 100,000 across the 60 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 10,081 theft incidents have been published.

Theft in Detroit by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)10,081——
202511,5671,791up 0.3%
202411,5291,785up 4.7%
202311,0101,705up 22.3%
20229,0031,394up 19.2%
20217,5551,170up 6.8%
20207,0771,096down 22.0%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 95,437 theft incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most theft (2025)

  1. Downtown 610 incidents
  2. Midtown 374 incidents
  3. Cornerstone Village 284 incidents
  4. Bethune Community 274 incidents
  5. Dexter-Linwood 259 incidents
  6. Nolan 244 incidents
  7. Schulze 209 incidents
  8. Warrendale 205 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many theft incidents were reported in Detroit in 2025?

11,567, according to Detroit Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is theft going up or down in Detroit?

Reported theft was up 0.3% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 28.5% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Detroit Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

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